Jeffrey Sikkenga Associate Professor of Political Science 120 Andrews Hall Ashland University 401 College Avenue Ashland, Ohio  44805 (419) 289-5625 jsikkeng@ashland.edu Personal Web Site

Education:

• Ph.D., M.A., University of Toronto
• B.A., University of Virginia

 

Professor Sikkenga is associate professor of political science at Ashland University, adjunct fellow of the John M. Ashbrook Center, and senior fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in political thought, the American Founding, and American constitutional law. He is deeply interested in the relationship between politics and religion in liberal democracy and America in particular. He has published articles and reviews in journals such as Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Journal of Politics, Journal of Markets and Morality, and Religion and Liberty. He co-edited History of American Political Thought (Lexington Press, 2003), edited Transforming American Welfare (1999), and co-wrote The Free Person and the Free Economy (2002). He is currently working on a book on the natural right to freedom of religion in the political thought of John Locke and the American Founders, exploring the foundations and political implications of religious liberty as a human right.